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To: mdittmar
My perspective is that the US should turn Walker over the the Afghan Government or its military for trial. After all he was in an Afghan jail initially. I would hope that the New Afghan government would use good judicial judgement in charging Mr. Walker and others with the murder of their prison guards. Even if for some extraordinary reason Mr. Walker is not found guilty in an Afghan court of murdering his guards and he is just given a long prison sentence, 15 years in a Afghan prison is probably a harsher punishment than either a quick death in the US or some jail time in a nice warm US federal jail cell with color TV, etc.

My vote is for Mr. Bush to allow Mr Walker to be extradited to Afghanistan to stand trial for his crimes against his Afghan guards and if the Afghans execute him, so be it. If Mr. Walker is just thrown in jail for the rest of his life in an Afghan jail, so be that.

Once the US has extracted whatever intellegence we want from him, he is just so much terrorist trash that needs to be disposed of! I don't care what his parents or the media try to portray him as.

95 posted on 12/20/2001 9:15:15 AM PST by Robert357
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To: Robert357
RE: # 95:

Yes. Since Johnny is now or is becoming such a hot political potato, turning him over to the Afghanistan government would be the wisest step. Otherwise, we could be said to be protecting him from the charges against him in that prison uprising. I imagine the Bushies are not entirely happy to make a decision, any decision, in this case.

What is likely to happen, I think, is that an illusion of justice will be created, to split and divide the hard line opposition such as ourselves. By illusion of justice I mean the same treatment that had been given to all the SLA and Weatherman members who are all free and even on government payroll as we speak. Dues process, blah, blah, blah, trial, blah, blah, blah, "the system works" to quote OJ Simpson and the many who are completely satisfied if not with the outcome of that trial then with the process that led to it. The system works!

102 posted on 12/20/2001 9:35:51 AM PST by Revolting cat!
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